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1468963

registered interest
date	09/06/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Airlines: Competition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of competition amongst airlines in the low-cost carrier sector.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	15404
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2022 answer text <p>The UK has a competitive aviation market, which operates predominantly in the private sector. Airports invest in their infrastructure to attract passengers and airlines, while airlines are well placed to deliver services to their customers by responding to demand for routes. Whilst we recognise the importance of maintaining a thriving and competitive aviation sector in the UK to deliver connectivity, levelling up and the supporting the Union, it is for airlines to determine the routes they operate based on their own assessment on whether routes are commercially viable.</p><p>Under competition law, responsibility for investigating individual competition issues falls to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s competition authority. As an independent authority, the CMA has discretion to investigate competition cases which, according to its prioritisation principles, it considers most appropriate. The CMA also has powers to conduct detailed examinations of why particular markets may not be working well, and decide what remedial action is appropriate. Concerns about market competition can be submitted to the CMA.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts grouped question UIN 15405 15406 15407 15408 15409 15412 question first answered 15/06/2022 08:55:12 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1468964

registered interest
date	09/06/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Airlines: Competition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to ensure that airlines which have significant market power in the low-cost carrier sector do not misuse their prominent market position.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	15405
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2022 answer text <p>The UK has a competitive aviation market, which operates predominantly in the private sector. Airports invest in their infrastructure to attract passengers and airlines, while airlines are well placed to deliver services to their customers by responding to demand for routes. Whilst we recognise the importance of maintaining a thriving and competitive aviation sector in the UK to deliver connectivity, levelling up and the supporting the Union, it is for airlines to determine the routes they operate based on their own assessment on whether routes are commercially viable.</p><p>Under competition law, responsibility for investigating individual competition issues falls to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s competition authority. As an independent authority, the CMA has discretion to investigate competition cases which, according to its prioritisation principles, it considers most appropriate. The CMA also has powers to conduct detailed examinations of why particular markets may not be working well, and decide what remedial action is appropriate. Concerns about market competition can be submitted to the CMA.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts grouped question UIN 15404 15406 15407 15408 15409 15412 question first answered 15/06/2022 08:55:13 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1468965

registered interest
date	09/06/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Airlines: Competition
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of whether structural market features in the low-cost carrier sector are being misused by the few dominant airlines in the market.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	15406
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2022 answer text <p>The UK has a competitive aviation market, which operates predominantly in the private sector. Airports invest in their infrastructure to attract passengers and airlines, while airlines are well placed to deliver services to their customers by responding to demand for routes. Whilst we recognise the importance of maintaining a thriving and competitive aviation sector in the UK to deliver connectivity, levelling up and the supporting the Union, it is for airlines to determine the routes they operate based on their own assessment on whether routes are commercially viable.</p><p>Under competition law, responsibility for investigating individual competition issues falls to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK’s competition authority. As an independent authority, the CMA has discretion to investigate competition cases which, according to its prioritisation principles, it considers most appropriate. The CMA also has powers to conduct detailed examinations of why particular markets may not be working well, and decide what remedial action is appropriate. Concerns about market competition can be submitted to the CMA.</p> answering member constituency Witney answering member printed Robert Courts grouped question UIN 15404 15405 15407 15408 15409 15412 question first answered 15/06/2022 08:55:13 answering member 4589 label Biography information for Robert Courts
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1468061

registered interest
date	07/06/2022
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Chesterfield Canal: Tunnels
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of how best Highways England could implement Dr Geraint Coles’ proposals to reinstate the Chesterfield Canal route under the M1.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	13849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/06/2022 answer text <p>I would encourage the Honourable Member to get in touch with National Highways who would be happy to discuss this matter.</p> answering member constituency Copeland answering member printed Trudy Harrison question first answered 15/06/2022 12:08:39 answering member 4593 label Biography information for Trudy Harrison
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1467638

registered interest
date	06/06/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to monitor the long-term effectiveness of covid-19 booster vaccines.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	13288
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2022 answer text <p>The UK Health Security Agency continues to work with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, NHS England and other government, devolved administration and academic partners to monitor the COVID-19 vaccination programme. Several studies of vaccine effectiveness have been conducted in the United Kingdom against different COVID-19 variants and continue to be updated.</p><p> </p><p>Post implementation effectiveness studies are required to understand vaccine effectiveness against outcomes such as severe disease and onwards transmission, effectiveness in different subgroups of the population, against different variants and the duration of protection. Vaccine effectiveness is estimated by comparing rates of disease in vaccinated individuals to rates in unvaccinated individuals. Where available, we are focusing on data related to the Omicron variant which is currently dominant in the UK.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup grouped question UIN 13169 question first answered 13/06/2022 09:51:20 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1467639

registered interest
date	06/06/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of extending the rollout of a fourth covid-19 vaccine to the general population.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	13289
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/06/2022 answer text <p>On 21 February 2022, the Government accepted advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to offer an additional spring booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine to those most vulnerable as a precautionary measure. The additional COVID-19 booster dose is being offered to all residents in care homes for older adults, individuals aged 12 years old and over who are immunosuppressed and all adults aged 75 years old and over.</p><p><br> On 19 May 2022, the JCVI published interim advice on an autumn COVID-19 booster programme. The JCVI’s interim advice is that a COVID-19 vaccine should be offered to residents in a care home for older adults and staff; frontline health and social care workers; all those 65 years old and over; and adults aged 16 to 64 years old in a clinical risk group. The JCVI will continue to review the vaccination programme and the epidemiological situation, particularly in relation to the timing and value of doses for less vulnerable older adults and those in clinical risk groups before autumn 2022. The Government will consider JCVI’s final recommendations for the autumn COVID-19 booster programme later this year.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup grouped question UIN 13299 14630 question first answered 13/06/2022 09:49:40 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1467640

registered interest
date	06/06/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Immunology: Public Health
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to use immunology to tackle (a) cancer and (b) other major public health challenges.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	13290
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/07/2022 answer text <p>The ‘Life Sciences Vision’ aims to support the development of immunotherapies for cancer. In addition, the Vision’s cancer and vaccines healthcare missions will support research to understand the potential of immunology and its response to a range of diseases.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield grouped question UIN 14631 question first answered 06/07/2022 15:00:48 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1467641

registered interest
date	06/06/2022
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department will publish England’s national all vaccine strategy.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	13291
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2022 answer text <p>The strategy is being kept under review given the continuously evolving understanding of COVID-19, its vaccines and vaccination programmes and the impact of these developments.</p> answering member constituency Erewash answering member printed Maggie Throup question first answered 14/06/2022 16:03:00 answering member 4447 label Biography information for Maggie Throup
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1467645

registered interest
date	06/06/2022
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Special Educational Needs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to help ensure that (a) specialist and (b) mainstream schools can provide the therapies and other services that disabled children need.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	13295
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2022 answer text <p>The department encourages schools and colleges to work collaboratively with their local authority, Clinical Commissioning Group, and health providers to ensure that children and young people have access to the appropriate therapies and support, including addressing any backlogs in assessments. To support this we issued joint guidance last year for educational settings and health providers, working with a cross-sector group including the Royal Colleges and professional organisations, guidance is available here: <a href="https://councilfordisabledchildren.org.uk/about-cdc/media-centre/news-opinion/delivery-specialist-11-and-group-interventions-children-and" target="_blank">https://councilfordisabledchildren.org.uk/about-cdc/media-centre/news-opinion/delivery-specialist-11-and-group-interventions-children-and</a>.</p><p>In December 2021, the department announced an additional £1 billon for the recovery premium over the next two academic years (2022 to 2023 and 2023 to 2024). This will help schools to deliver a range of evidence-based approaches to support the most disadvantaged pupils, and specialist providers receive an uplift in this funding in recognition of the significantly higher per pupil costs they face. Schools can use their recovery premium funding to help subsidise the cost of support such as speech and language therapies should they wish to do so. In addition, the schools-led element of the National Tutoring Programme can be used for tutoring to support catch-up in the broader curriculum, such as practising and consolidating techniques in speech and language therapy.</p><p>The Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Alternative Provision Green Paper sets out the departments proposals to improve the outcomes and experiences of children and young people with SEND and their families. It aims to drive national consistency in how needs are assessed, identified, and met across education, health, and care through the introduction of national standards. This includes a proposal to commission analysis to better understand the support that children and young people with SEND need from the health workforce, so that there is a clear focus on SEND in future health workforce planning. The proposals within the Green Paper are currently open to a full public consultation until 22 July. The Green Paper is available here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/send-review-right-support-right-place-right-time" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/send-review-right-support-right-place-right-time</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 14/06/2022 16:46:05 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford

1467637

registered interest
date	02/06/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department supports a proactive, predictive immunology approach to the development of the next generation of covid-19 vaccines.
tabling member constituency	Rother Valley
tabling member printed	Alexander Stafford
uin	13287
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/06/2022 answer text <p>The Government supports a proactive approach to continue to develop the next generation of vaccines. Despite the highly successful national vaccination campaign, it is important we continue to study how to produce Covid-19 vaccines that induce robust, long-term protective immunity and which are effective across mutating variants.</p><p> </p><p>To that end, following extensive engagement with academic and industry stakeholders, the Vaccine Taskforce are working with other stakeholders across government, to explore the establishment of a UK-wide Predictive Immunology Network, formed of centres of excellence spread across the UK.</p><p> </p><p>The aim is to ensure the network will utilise the collaborative approach that was so successful during the pandemic, to bring together industry, academia, and the NHS to work towards a common goal and answer key immunology questions on how to improve vaccines including the next generation Covid-19 vaccines.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 14/06/2022 14:08:15 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4866 label Biography information for Alexander Stafford